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Chapter 1: How does a mother's work impact her children's future earnings?
Working isn't just good for you. It could be one of the most powerful things that you could do for your daughter's career and your son's relationship.
A Harvard study shows just how much mother's working impacts
We talk about an industry that grows when everything else shrinks and a $10 billion deal that could reshape every high street pharmacy.
We invest in beauty products. We invest in all sorts of things in the space as a consumer, but often women aren't.
money in this space and finally we update you on a third trillion dollar ipo that's coming to market we've spoken about anthropic we've spoken about spacex and now it's opening eyes to me this is the curve weekly where we read the finance news so that you don't have to i'm vick harris a finance professional and career out of making money for other people and i'm sophie hall right it's tv radio
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Chapter 2: What does the Harvard study reveal about working mothers?
We're also joined by our podcast producer, Emily Rigby, and our social media manager, Lucy Munro, who helped make this podcast possible. But before we get into the headlines, a quick word from today's sponsor.
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Are you updating us on your money? No, I'm not.
I'm actually just kicking that can down the road. No one wants to hear about it.
This is the – when someone –
It's the biggest tease of all time.
To tease you.
But I'm not actually doing it because I'm trying to be a tease. I'm just, it's, I'm so sick of talking about my shit to financial blowouts. Everyone must be like. Teasing every episode and you're like, just jokes. They're fine. They're not fine. My finances are fine. They're absolutely not fine. I actually took a screenshot yesterday to send Lucy, our social media manager, because it's
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Chapter 3: Why is the lab-grown vs. natural diamond debate so divisive?
Damn it. You're a product of your environment, essentially. And so that's why I feel like, you know, when women have now stepped, you know, a lot more women are now wanting to focus on their careers.
Yeah.
Or needing to financially. Yeah, exactly. From, you know, let's say 10, 20 years ago, there's still this massive full-time job that needs to be done, and that is raising children. And so it's like, okay, well, if one, whoever it is in that partnership, and like hats off to any single parents out there because they do not have this luxury.
On earth. Absolutely amazing.
There has to be a conversation of...
who does what because as soon as you have kids you've got three full-time roles for for people that have that want to stay in their careers so it's like there has to be a conversation it's so mind-blowing to me that the government doesn't pay for that oh my god like gap that's being filled it actually blows my mind the more i am the more i'm just i did a talk at a law firm the other day and was talking about this and talking about pensions and the motherhood penalty and this girl in the front row was pregnant and she and then i spoke to her afterwards and she was like
Oh, yeah, thankfully our work gives us, you know, full pay, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, amazing. She's like, I do not know how I would survive on £150 a week living in London. Is that how much the government pays? That's how much the government pays. I'm just like, have no politicians come out of a woman? Do you know? Yeah.
Like, in terms of... Oh, you mean in terms of... I was like... Like, all of those politicians... Have mothers that had to make, and fathers, had to make incredible sacrifices for them. I'm just, it blows my mind that is not the first thing in the agenda of any politician that comes into power. I'm just, anyway, that's a whole other kind of word.
We could have some kind of lobby situation.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the upcoming major IPOs?
You know, it's kind of the opposite.
How attractive is it dating a guy that can actually like, oh.
say no more there's nothing more of an aphrodisiac than someone oh my god doing the dishes like jump me now honestly no it's so true there's so many memes of it and like people think that they're funny but no it's it's true it's true if you come home to her like I don't know why household chores being done really turns me on well to be honest it turns me on when I do it for myself you know oh totally and I'm like oh yeah yeah yeah it's amazing like on a Sunday if I've
done the dishes if i've done the dishes lol i promise my dishes don't just sit there all week you know in terms of live washing style i've done a grocery shop i feel like the smuggest person totally yeah if anyone's got thoughts on that whether you stay at home with the kids whether you've gone to work like if anyone's got any thoughts on this we've got our curve hotline
which we'll link in the show notes. Feel free to leave a voice note, a ramble, really. I think with this kind of thing, like it's so hard.
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Chapter 5: How are SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI changing the market?
Like both of the topics we've just spoken about, we are childless, not engaged and haven't got married. There's these huge big life moments where we're kind of talking about these things that are so relevant to our audience and we've never experienced them. So really open that up to anyone that wants to share their...
So Chemist Warehouse is wanting to buy boots. Context. Context.
Chemist Warehouse is an Australian brand?
Yes. Yeah, Australia and New Zealand.
So Chemist Warehouse is a place, if you've never been, you can go and buy all sorts of things from, I was about to say Footscrub. That's the most random product to think of.
The largest pharmacy chain in Australia and New Zealand.
Vitamins. Think vitamins. Hair product. Oh my God, why am I going blank?
It's basically... Shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste. Yeah, everything. Massive chemist. What a pharmacy. I think everyone knows what a pharmacy sells.
Thank you so much. Great. And it's huge. They're huge. And they're also amazing prices, right? They're way cheaper than going to a normal chemist. For anyone that's not in the UK, boots is kind of the equivalent of hair in the UK, really.
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Chapter 6: What should retail investors consider before investing in these IPOs?
googling like the boots but yes so the reason this is really big and interesting is how how much is boots worth right now so they are a private company amazing they've managed to stay private yeah so oh there was a bit like so they were a part of a u.s company they got spun off and they got bought but they've had like quite a interesting history so they are owned by a u.s private equity company right now
and chemist warehouse which is actually owned by a company called sigma healthcare which is on the asx it's on the australian stock exchange so if you wanted to own shares in chemist warehouse right now you could through through sigma so sigma healthcare was is the kind of the parent company and wait how does that work so it's not public but you can buy shares in it yeah no it is public chemist warehouse is public boots isn't sorry yeah yeah that's right you were busy
Yes. So Chemist Warehouse, well, Sigma Healthcare, the owner of Chemist Warehouse, is wanting to buy boots for $14 billion. Casual. So this would be one of the biggest pharmacy chains in the world. The thing is that Sigma is buying something that's roughly 40% of their own size. So this is massive for them. How amazing.
Earth would have enough money to do that.
So that's nearly half the size of them. Huge. Yeah.
It's so weird that all these businesses are trying to buy businesses that are enormous. Normally, I thought you would acquire a business that's small, you know? Even the story we spoke about a few weeks ago with that business trying to buy one that's like four times their size, you know?
GameStop and eBay.
Yeah.
I think to answer your question, like, it's because the stock market has done so well that these companies' share prices are so high. Right. They now... That gives them the opportunity to purchase these companies that previously they might not have been able to or they could raise money to then purchase these companies. So, like, yeah, when... Stock markets do well.
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Chapter 7: What are the ethical considerations of property investment?
Honestly, it wasn't.
It was. I promise. I promise. Anyway, yeah, if you take the foot scrub that you now might put on, you know, supply to Chemist Warehouse, you can now supply to like so many more stores because you've got boots in your Chemist Warehouse. You know, like the scale benefits and therefore what you can purchase that foot scrub for from a manufacturer.
And you start getting some real scale benefits because you're not only buying maybe 4,000 units of foot scrub, you're now buying 20,000. So, you know, all of those benefits...
why scale is really good and then also just prevents competition you know if you've got the biggest range the lowest prices it sounds like a commercial but um you know then you yeah starves small competitors it's kind of like i guess if you think of something like unilever where they own every different brand under the sun they almost own the whole yeah shampoo space they're like oh that toothpaste isn't doing well that's a shame but this one is so yeah yeah exactly
What I find so interesting about the beauty and wellness space in general, and you speak about this a lot, Vic, that it's one of the fastest growing recession-proof industries. And it's so fascinating to me, like the percentage of people who invest in these companies are so, it's so many men that invest in them because they can see that they're a great investment.
Yet we're the ones that are fueling the consumer side of it. It's just a really good thing to start to be aware of. And this is, again, something we've spoken about literally since the beginning of the curve. Things that you buy and businesses that you support as a consumer, you can invest in. And that's like almost supporting your own investment in a way. If you're shopping somewhere-
Like, look it up. See if it's a public company.
Yeah, like Australian women spend $300 a month on skincare. I'm surprised there's not more. Imagine if you put that into investing in skincare and beauty companies, you know?
Because I guarantee guys do not spend that much on skincare, but they probably own the company. Oh, totally, yeah.
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Chapter 8: How can investors navigate the complexities of ethical investing?
Which, can you put that into context for how... That's the size of Switzerland. Almost like the net worth of the country is worth just that one industry. Yeah. It's so, it's crazy.
crazy to me and this just keeps coming up in the curve weekly around new brands that are coming to market acquisitions i feel like so much is happening in this space it's expected to grow about seven percent a year which doesn't seem like a lot but that's kind of above above population growth if you think about the beer market the beer market's growing two percent a year so yeah like drinking beer yeah so seven percent is is pretty good
Like that is, that's quite high considering that's above population growth, above inflation, above, you know, people are spending and spending and spending and women account for over 80% of the global skincare market.
Imagine if we looked at all of our audience, all the women in the world and how much we were spending. Let's do an anonymous salary spreadsheet but for cost of skincare. Not just skincare but beauty. Yes. Because if I look at my... I think it would be quite shocking.
My beauty account.
How much do you spend on beauty a month?
I'd probably be... On average, I'd probably be around 200. No.
I put nearly 200 pounds a month into my beauty account.
Yeah, I'd probably... But that's for like... My skincare is like 30 pounds. Yeah, and then I'll do a facial.
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